Heads Up: Free 1 year of AVG AntiVirus 9 starting Tuesday (August 31, 2010) [24-hours only]
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Starting Tuesday, v3.co.uk is going to run a promotion allowing users to get AVG AntiVirus 9 (1 year, 1 PC license) for free. Here is the official word from them:
We hinted at a big 31st of August promotion in July and, we can safely say, this promotion has taken over 8 months to negotiate, arrange and finalise. It’s that important. We’re proud to be able to announce that, between midday CET (central European time) 31st August to midday CET 1st of September, we’re giving you the full current version of AVG Anti-Virus 9 [1-PC, 1-Year], worth £26.99, FREE for everyone to download.
If you’re been using the popular AVG Anti-Virus Free for a while and wondered why you should upgrade to the commercial edition, now is your chance. The difference between the Free and the commercial edition, worth £26.99, includes advanced root-kit protection, a game mode so you can remain safe, without affecting your gameplay, phishing protection and more.
According to v3.co.uk, this freebie is available for everyone but they have a limited amount of licenses to giveaway:
Note, that although we have many thousands of AVG AntiVirus 9 [1-PC, 1-Year] codes to giveaway for free, and everyone can get a code, if the codes expire early, the giveaway promotion will also end early.
So be vigilant in taking advantage of this freebie if you want it.
The giveaway has not started yet – it will start 3 AM PST Tuesday August 31, 2010 and end 3 AM PST Wednesday September 1, 2010 – so I don’t have much details on it right now. However, I thought I should give everyone the heads up in advance. Be sure to visit store.v3.co.uk on Tuesday!
I left a question but received NO answers.
How do I get an answer to my question????
Installation of AVG Anti-Virus 9 went fine but unisntalled it after struggling to find out how it had disabled my wireless (wifi) and also because it prevented me from starting PDF to Word by Quick-PDF.com (signaled as trojan horse generic18.CAUA for which I found no explanation on AVG’s website). In any case, it seemed that it would have stopped working by 30/09/10 (message at the bottom left of the programme’s main window) even though I went through the whole procedure of activating it sevral times, and each time the message on AVGs website site was to notify a succesful registration!? (scratch, scratch scracth the top of my head…)
@Peter C1: Try this: http://www.avg.com/us-en/download-file-ins-avd
there is no easy way to get the one year license. why a one year license for a free program anyway. this appears to do and be the same thing as avg free. i am stuck with a 30-day temporary license even though i followed all instructions and inserted the new full one year license code which was different from the 30-day gratis code given in my email. wtf is wrong with clicking once and getting it? to give something for free and cause someone to work for several hours to EARN it, kinda takes the FREE out of it and one winds up with an actual negative balance counting for the hourly wage of trying to install and register only to be told it is a trial version. SIMPLIFY THE PROCESS
@Al LIPSKY: Not sure if you have already figured it out, but here is what you need to activate the AVG license.
Open AVG interface and click on Register now. It will open a page in your browser with a registration form.
Just fill up the fields for Firstname, last name, email id and confirm email id, select your country, and make sure you tick the check box agreeing to the license agreement.
Then click on submit/continue, it will ask you to verify the info you entered.
Click on submit again and the browser will load a new page on which the actual license will be shown. It will also be sent to your email id which you used to register
Open AVG -> Activate now and paste the license number and click on activate. :)
Or you could open this page in your browser http://www.avg.com/us-en/registration enter the Sales number, the code you got from the promo and follow the registration procedure.
Many thanks Sceleron (post #28).
That link you’ve kindly supplied appears to allow the user to download the entire program, which is over 120meg in size: avg_ipw_stf_all_90_851a3009.exe
Whereas the 2megabyte download avg_avw_stb_all_9_117.exe that was linked as the “Download” button, on the V3.co.uk website, I eventually did find by first looking on Google which showed 1 file by the same name which I also couldn’t download. :(
I then thought the problem out and remembered http://www.filemirrors_dot_com which is always a very useful website to refer too, and after just a few seconds searching it actually found the file in question on an afiliated AVG website: “aa-download.avg_dot_com/filedir/inst/avg.avw_stb_all_9_117.exe” which downloaded easily.
To be fair I FORGOT to leave a message here @ dotTech to notify users I had finally got the file on the 3rd of September 2010.
So thanks very much for your assistance as I’m going to install and activate the program this weekend
I used to like and use AVG, not any more. It’s hogs the sytem, and there are far far too many false positives. I have now moved onto Comodo internet security premium (free).
please,can you send me license key of avg antivirus with valid of one year.Also send me company name too.i wii be thanked full to you.
thanks.